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What happened to Rosa Parks when she refused to move

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She was arrested

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When and who sat on a bus on way home from work in Montgomery Alabama, Who refuse to stand up to let white man sit on seat

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December 1955 Rosa Parks

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Who was Rosa Parks

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A trained NAACP activist

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Why did Rosa Parks take her stand

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Because there were a number of incidents before of rudeness and discrimination against black on the Montgomery buses

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Who did the black people of Montgomery choose as their leader

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Martin Luther King

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What did thousands of black people do with the Boycott

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Blacks walked to work and take taxis given by African Americans which are offered seats for the cost of a bus fair

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How many African American taxidrivers offered their seats

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210

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How long did the bus boycott last

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381 days

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What was also organised to get black people to work

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A car pool of supporters of the Boycott

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What did King and his supporters call themselves

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The Montgomery improvement Association (M I A)

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Who did the M I A employ to take the bus boycott case to the supreme Court

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NAACP lawyers

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What did the M I A want

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Black drivers on black routes, and white busdrivers to be polite to black passengers

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What did M I A deliberately sought to do

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They deliberately sought only moderate reforms

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What did the M I A not challenge

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The idea of segregation
They asked only that sears on city buses be allocated on first come first serve basis
black people seats rear, white seats front

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Here oppose the M I A’s proposals

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The local white citizens council

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What was the result of the local white citizens councils opposition

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Their membership doubled

Ordered local officials to harass of boycott leaders-King arrested for speeding

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When was Martin Luther King home bombed by the KKK

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January 1956

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What was the boycott ruining

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The bus company financially

Local businesses as they were losing custom

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How much did local shopkeepers lose because of the Boycott

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$1 million

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What happened on 13 November

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City chiefs claims carpool was in effect a taxi service operating without a proper license-got carpools stopped in courts

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What happened on the same day that the car Pool was banned

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The Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses was unconstitutional

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What was the boycott and Rosa Parks and inspiration to

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The civil rights movement

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What did the boycott and Rosa Parks demonstrate

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That when black Americans United, they could succeed, and that violent opposition only increased support

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What did the success of the boycott increase

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Black confidence

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What was a result of black confidence when the KKK drove through black areas of town
Black came out and waved at them
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Where were there copycat boycotts
Throughout the South
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Why was the success of the Boycott Limited?
Everything else in Montgomery was still segregated | .
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What was the overall result of the Boycott
Boycott revealed depth of racism and determination of whites Rosa parks and husband lost their jobs Received death threats and had to move Detroit
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1957 which ruling had not resulted in any immediate changes in the schools
ThE Supreme Court brown v Topeka ruling
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What did the Brown versus Topeka ruling not order
Segregated schools to be abolished-just said they were wrong
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How many segregated states ignored the ruling of b v t
Most of the 20 segregated states
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What did the government not enforce
The states to end segregation
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What happened when states did try to change
Some schools closed rather than desegregate | Mobs gathered to stop black children going to white schools
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What happened on May 23 of September 1957
Nine black students attend central high school in little rock, Arkansas
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How many people were in the mob which barred the nine students way
1000
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What happened two days later after the mob. At Little Rock
Children went to school protected by 11,000 soldiers | Crowd shouted: two, four, six, eight; we aren't going to integrate.
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What happened to the black students when they were in the school
They were assaulted and abused
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What did the black students face back in the Black community
I know of those who said the meddling nine were making life harder for black people
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Why was Little Rock a defeat for civil rights
A few other schools dared to desegregate and few black children wanted to face the danger. Little rock was only fully desegregated in 1972 Only 3% of Americans black children attended desegregated schools in 1964
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In 1964 how many percent of America's black children attended desegregating schools
3%
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When was little rock fully disaggregated
1972
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By 1960 what had the civil rights movement begun to do
They had begun to undermine the legal principles of segregation
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When was the TV interview with Martin Luther King and what did he say
1967 MLK said that he believed that the 1950s had created 'a new negro', who had a willingness to stand up courageously for what he feels is just and what he feels he deserves on the basis of the laws of the land.
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By 1960 what simple and basic civil right black still not have
The right to vote
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What did Martin Luther Kings southern Christian leadership conference try to organise and what was the outcome
The registration of the 3 million new black voters in a 1957 act only managed to add only 160,000 more names
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What had the movement provoked
Angry and violent white backlash
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What were white citizens councils doing in terms of the voting
They went through the same voters lists and found excuses to delete the names of black voters who already there
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What kind of blacks were being fired
'Uppity' blacks
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What did a number of southern states do
They outlawed the NAACP
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How many black Americans lived below the poverty line in 1940
87%
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How many black Americans lived below the poverty line in 1959
41%
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What was the average black income in 1957 of that of a white worker
57% that of a white worker
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How many black Americans were unemployed in 1957 compared to whites
11% which was double that of whites
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By the end of the 50s was there change
Little or no change in the everyday experience of blacks, he was still segregated and discriminated against socially economically and politically

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